Professor Fofana's work at Duke will include examining the role of mobile cinema (Cinema Numerique Ambulant or CNA)­ in social change. Through funding from NGO's CNA occupies the awkward position of "promoting" Western hegemonies while concurrently endeavoring to bring messages of self-determination to the village audiences in francophone West Africa.  He will work with Cultural Anthropology Professor Charlie Piot, with Romance Studies / History Professor Laurent Dubois, and with members of the Center for French and Francophone Studies.

He is also planning to develop a web-based resource for an undergraduate course on African Cinema that uses insights from history, geography, political science, anthropology, philosophy, literature, film, and the arts to provide students with essential intellectual building blocks for a more comprehensive understanding of the African continent.

In addition he has received funding from Humanities Writ Large to develop a documentary, in partnership with Joshua Gibson in Art, Art History & Visual Studies, on African Cinema.